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shenmue

(38,503 posts)
Sun Jan 17, 2016, 06:15 PM Jan 2016

Match fixing in tennis: scandal encompasses many top players

BBC story here

From the article:

Over the last decade 16 players who have ranked in the top 50 have been repeatedly flagged to the tennis integrity unit over suspicions they have thrown matches.

All of the players, including winners of Grand Slam titles, were allowed to continue competing.
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Match fixing in tennis: scandal encompasses many top players (Original Post) shenmue Jan 2016 OP
stupid Samsung joeybee12 Jan 2016 #1
very disturbing.... dhill926 Jan 2016 #2
Novak Djokovic's people offered $200K for star to lose match RockaFowler Jan 2016 #3
My guess is he reported it. The probe began in 2007 WhaTHellsgoingonhere Jan 2016 #4
Always heard rumors about Davyenko and they sort of seemed true joeybee12 Jan 2016 #5
Yep. marmar Jan 2016 #6
The Beatles were wrong T_i_B Jan 2016 #7

RockaFowler

(7,429 posts)
3. Novak Djokovic's people offered $200K for star to lose match
Mon Jan 18, 2016, 10:18 AM
Jan 2016
http://espn.go.com/tennis/story/_/id/14594431/novak-djokovic-says-was-offered-200000-lose-match-2007?ex_cid=espntw

Back in 2007, someone tried to offer Novak Djokovic roughly $200,000 to lose a first-round match at a tournament in St. Petersburg, Russia, he said Monday at the Australian Open.

Djokovic said he wasn't approached directly. Instead, "I was approached through people that were working with me at that time," he said, making clear that the offer was flat-out rejected. He didn't even attend the tournament, but he said he still didn't like the fact that someone even bothered to consider him for such a thing.

"It made me feel terrible because I don't want to be anyhow linked to this kind of -- you know, somebody may call it an opportunity," he said. "For me, that's an act of unsportsmanship, a crime in sport honestly. I don't support it. I think there is no room for it in any sport, especially in tennis."



Glad he's coming out to say this, but maybe he should have said something in 2007
 

WhaTHellsgoingonhere

(5,252 posts)
4. My guess is he reported it. The probe began in 2007
Mon Jan 18, 2016, 10:57 AM
Jan 2016

the Davydenko situation was well known. It's a nasty underworld. Davydenko might have been coerced. It was a sad situation.

 

joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
5. Always heard rumors about Davyenko and they sort of seemed true
Mon Jan 18, 2016, 12:22 PM
Jan 2016

since he had a lot of talent and never really broke through.

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